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The Cartoon Picture of Magnets That Has Transformed Science
...to model virtually every interesting thermodynamic phenomenon.” It has also penetrated far-flung disciplines well beyond physics, serving as a model of earthquakes, proteins, brains — and even racial segregation. Here’s...
In a Multiverse, What Are the Odds?
Testing the multiverse hypothesis requires measuring whether our universe is statistically typical among the infinite variety of universes. But infinity does a number on statistics. If modern physics is to...
Quantum Darwinism, an Idea to Explain Objective Reality, Passes First Tests
Three experiments have vetted quantum Darwinism, a theory that explains how quantum possibilities can give rise to objective, classical reality. It’s not surprising that quantum physics has a reputation for...
The Universe’s Ultimate Complexity Revealed by Simple Quantum Games
A two-player game can reveal whether the universe has an infinite amount of complexity. One of the biggest and most basic questions in physics involves the number of ways to...
Cosmologists Debate How Fast the Universe Is Expanding
...Perlmutter of the Supernova Cosmology Project and Brian Schmidt and Adam Riess of the High-Z Supernova Search Team, won the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics. Fast forward to July of...
Her Key to Modeling Brains: Ignore the Right Details
...a scientific perspective. It’s still a very cool area of physics for inspiring interesting math and making connections to all kinds of mathematics that aren’t typically considered applied. But from...
Does Form Really Shape Function?
...whose career has been devoted to using mathematics and physics to explore the form and function of common phenomena. Mahadevan, or Maha to his friends and colleagues, has long been...
A Scientist Who Delights in the Mundane
...and physics at Cambridge, and now between biology, mathematics and physics at Harvard. One positive aspect of being between disciplines is being left alone to find my own way through...
How Did Multicellular Life Evolve?
...biology with John Tyler Bonner. RATCLIFF: That’s really cool. STROGATZ: He was a very sweet man too. And you know what else, he had a lot of interest in physics,...